PHRASE |
ONE WORD |
One who is not sure about God’s existence |
Agnostic |
A person who deliberately sets fire to a building |
Arsonist |
One who does a thing for pleasure and not as a profession |
Amateur |
One who can use either hand with ease |
Ambidextrous |
One who makes an official examination of accounts |
Auditor |
A person who believes in or tries to bring about a state of lawlessness |
Anarchist |
A person who has changed his faith |
Apostate |
One who does not believe in the existence of God |
Atheist |
A person appointed by two parties to solve a dispute |
Arbitrator |
One who leads an austere life |
Ascetic |
One who does a thing for pleasure and not as a profession |
Amateur |
One who can either hand with ease |
Ambidextrous |
An unconventional style of living |
Bohemian |
One who is bad in spellings |
Cacographer |
One who feeds on human flesh |
Cannibal |
A person who is blindly devoted to an idea/ A person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism |
Chauvinist |
A critical judge of any art and craft |
Connoisseur |
Persons living at the same time |
Contemporaries |
One who is recovering health after illness |
Convalescent |
A girl/woman who flirts with man |
Coquette |
A person who regards the whole world as his country |
Cosmopolitan |
One who is a centre of attraction |
Cynosure |
One who sneers at the beliefs of others |
Cynic |
A leader or orator who espoused the cause of the common people |
Demagogue |
A person having a sophisticated charm |
Debonair |
A leader who sways his followers by his oratory |
Demagogue |
A dabbler (not serious) in art, science and literature |
Dilettante |
One who is for pleasure of eating and drinking |
Epicure |
One who often talks of his achievements |
Egotist |
Someone who leaves one country to settle in another |
Emigrant |
A man who is womanish in his habits |
Effeminate |
One hard to please (very selective in his habits) |
Fastidious |
One who runs away from justice |
Fugitive |
One who is filled with excessive enthusiasm in religious matters |
Fanatic |
One who believes in fate |
Fatalist |
A lover of good food |
Gourmand |
Conferred as an honour |
Honorary |
A person who acts against religion |
Heretic |
A person of intellectual or erudite tastes |
Highbrow |
A patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments |
Hypochondriac |
A person who is controlled by wife |
Henpeck |
One who shows sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality |
Indefatigable |
Someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions |
Iconoclast |
One who does not express himself freely |
Introvert |
Who behaves without moral principles |
Immoral |
A person who is incapable of being tampered with |
Impregnable |
One who is unable to pay his debts |
Insolvent |
A person who is mentally ill |
Lunatic |
A person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society |
Misanthrope |
A person who primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics |
Mercenary |
Someone in love with himself |
Narcissist |
One who collect coins as hobby |
Numismatist |
A person who likes or admires women |
Philogynist |
A lover of mankind |
Philanthropist |
A person who speaks more than one language |
Polyglot |
One who lives in solitude |
Recluse |
Someone who walks in sleep |
Somnambulist |
A person who is indifferent to the pains and pleasures of life |
Stoic |
A scolding nagging bad-tempered woman |
Termagant |
A person who shows a great or excessive fondness for one’s wife |
Uxorious |
One who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field |
Virtuoso |
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